Any form of legalization or amnesty for the 12 million will simply be an invitation for a third wave.
What made sense with respect to immigration in 1900 or 1950 does not make sense in 2010.
Lawrence Briskin
Centerville
The editorial (“States can’t fix immigration laws,” July 4) and the commentary by Michelle Malkin (“Assimilation was a must for our Founding Fathers,” July 4) both miss the heart of the matter with respect to previous amnesty.
This was supposed to stop the problem of illegal immigration. Instead, it became an invitation for a new wave of illegal immigration in anticipation of a second amnesty. We now have about 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S.